Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] with [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked slyly at my master , just like Queen Margaret had , though she greeted us civilly enough , ordering servants to take our guide and the baggage off to the guest house while she entertained us with cups of wine , fresh-baked bread and huge bowls of hot spicy broth . |
| 2 | She helped him with chores , gathering branches or rounding up cattle , or just stayed to keep him company while he worked . |
| 3 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 4 | Her crew were idle so she armed them with brushes and mops and set them to scrub the magnificent monument clean . |
| 5 | While he unsaddled and fed his horse , she plied him with questions about his visit to Tamar 's home . |
| 6 | Theodora watched as the woman whose voice would carry across a couple of ten-acre fields , and who could bring a rowdy committee to heel by clearing her throat , murmuring intimately into the mare 's ear and made little clucking noises as she plied her with carrots . |
| 7 | At the James Bulger trial , a woman has told the court how she confronted two boys and the frightened toddler when she saw him with injuries , but was told he 'd fallen and was being taken home . |